Agreed, game time so close to the start of the season is IMO vital. These are not friendlies to 'fan a' about with.

Keighley have announced their 19 man squad - keighleycougars.com/19-man-squad ... e-one-cup/ 2 – Andy Gabriel 4 – Danny Lawton 5 – Davey Dixon 7 – Matty Beharrell 8 – Scott Law 9 – James Feather 11 – Josh Lynam 12 – Brendon Rawlins 13 – Mike Emmett 15 – Neil Cherryholme 16 – Will Milner 18 – Josh Tonks 20 – Nathan Kitson 21 – Emmerson Whittel 22 – Ritchie Hawkyard 23 – Fran Welsh 27 – Sean Kelly 29 – Brad Nicholson 32 – Adam Ryder

Keighley have announced their 19 man squad - keighleycougars.com/19-man-squad ... e-one-cup/ 2 – Andy Gabriel 4 – Danny Lawton 5 – Davey Dixon 7 – Matty Beharrell 8 – Scott Law 9 – James Feather 11 – Josh Lynam 12 – Brendon Rawlins 13 – Mike Emmett 15 – Neil Cherryholme 16 – Will Milner 18 – Josh Tonks 20 – Nathan Kitson 21 – Emmerson Whittel 22 – Ritchie Hawkyard 23 – Fran Welsh 27 – Sean Kelly 29 – Brad Nicholson 32 – Adam Ryder

3 ex Doncaster players.

Is it too much to ask for our 19 man squad to be put on the Official Site , the club have to submit them to the RFL 48 hours before the game ,so why not on the web site .

Elation or deflation?

Circumspect

A good game to see where we are before the league season starts in March .

COYD

Dons + 4 10/11 with Skybet. A Dons win is 11/8.

Not managed to find anywhere with commentary on todays game...anyone else?

HT Keighley 4 Dons 12

14-12 useless!!!

18-12 even more useless!!!!

20-12

24-12 Can't defend!
Plain as day!

Going out now so don't really care.

Obviously not good enough for this League, get rid of Club Doncaster, get rid of the Coach, doomed I tell you, doomed.

Always look on the black side of life



The Life of Brian.

24_22

FT Keighley 30 Dons 22

Sin-bins for Martin and Hedges proving costly.

If that's the final score

I'll take that for the first proper run out, up against a team who feature at shorter odds than us (for promotion) on their own patch. Gives the Coach an idea as to what worked and what didn't.

Disappointing to lose but that's sport. I await the match report and reaction.

I really don't do ifs and buts. Yes we lost narrowly and we can put forward reasons why we might have won ... sin-binnings for instance.
But we lost ... we are out of this cup at the first attempt two years on the trot.
Fact!
We get not a further red cent!

Thornton can dig all his cliches out of his cliche box.
But he and his side lost.

I could have written him the script ... I did ...
'Clunky attack, dodgy defence'

Fell at the first .....

What evidence is there that he has learned anything so far?
Keighley are not nearly the best side in this division and a very easy league start will mask any shortcomings in our game .... so I don't see any improvements on last season. We have already had four games and what is wrong with this side as been obvious in all four. How is it gonna change?

We have better forwards, that is all that has changed.

COYD

Kneejerkery? It might be if, it all wasn't all too familiar.

Agreed we lost. As for the other of your points, my view is I'm probably too long in the tooth following the Dons to expect anything but ups and downs. The players and the Coach's reaction to this game will be interesting.

Well yeah it comes with the territory of being a Dons supporter.

Not really interested in the coach's reaction ... he's half the problem.

A poor start to the season in our first competitive game, we started well and looked well drilled, however we became sloppy and lost discipline. We lacked creativity in attack, I thought keighley wanted the win more than us in the first 25 minutes of the 2nd half, and it only changed when Kyle Keswick came back on and added a bit more steel and belief.

I am concerned that the season ahead will be a repeat of last season, where we will make the play offs and get knocked out without believing we can win.

I want to know what Gary Thornton will do to change it, he's been given a bigger budget, and he stated at the fans meeting he's always been supported by the board, if that's the case then surely the blame lays at his door.

If we are to believe the plans the club have over the next 5 years and our budget is the highest it's been then we should be challenging for the 2nd automatic promotion spot, getting beaten by a very average keighley team isn't going to achieve our goal.

Discipline, discipline, discipline! Two Sin binning plus other silly penalties have we not learnt anything, discipline cost us games last season and we seem to have started this the same. We should concentrate on being smart not trying to prove how hard we are.

Right about the discipline poor. Cannot win a match with 12 players for 20 mins.

Team selection 6 props, Thackray can play at 13 but Zac NO way he is a 13 , just didn't work .

Some big decisions to make re the players & the way we play.

COYD

With Carl Hall's comments regarding the pitch on this weeks ITD can I take that the team selection was made with the pitch in mind or was the playing surface not that heavy?